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time comes to throw them down, you
can not take up the task. mental or
physical, with equal ardor and vigor.
Your muscles and brain will grow in
work as well as in play. And to get
the habit of work while you are boys is
one of the greatest and best habits you
can acquire. It will be q pleasure and
profit to you III your life through
The good motive from which it is un-
dertaken will help your moral charac-
ter and strengthen your manliness So
to any boy who heretofore has depend
ed chiefly or wholly upon play for ex-
ercise, l would say: ''Just look about
you and see if there isn't something
you can do. either to help others, or to
earn little money for yourself. or to
learn something which in after years
may be of practical service to you.
Some work you can make regular sys-
tematic exercise. You will be happier
in the doing of it than you can possi-
bly, be by just doing nothing but play.
And If there is any particular thing
you wish to learn to do well, don't rest
until you can find some means Of learn
ing how to do It.
There is nothing like having a will
to do any thing to accomplish ones
purpose. And whether working or
playing, do it heartily and with an OBJ
ject in view, either to make yourself or
some one else happier or better. So
your life will mean more, and yon will
grow strong and manly every day you
live. Chyisti0n at Work.
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to the ceiling justiies liking the place
to the catacombs.
However. it is a mighty storehouse
and while apparently it is labyrinth
without clue, there can be no more
orderly place. For every day an in
quiry comes for some portion of the
contents, and the keeper of the crypt is
able to lay his hands instantly on any
package, however small. the moment
there is call for it.
The yearly increase in the amount of
matter handled by the Dead-Letter
Office. which, while comparatively
small, is nevertheless constant, might
lead to the conclusion that the Ameri-
can people were yearly becoming more
careless. For, after all, carelessness is
the cause of large proportion of the
early deaths of postal matter. The in
crease in the Dead-Letter Office matter
last year was little over FIVE per cent,
but this increase is not nearly proper
toned to that of the volume of matter
committed to the mails. Last year the
increase in the amount of matter of all
kinds sent through the mails was about
nineteen per cent. So it may be con-
cluded that while the dead-letter matter
increases, this increase is due mainly to
the growth Of the country and the ex-
pansion of the postal service. Wash
taQt0n Star.
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PuNcENT PARAGRAPHS.

California raisln growers expect to
make an average of $500 an acre this
season.
The old saying. "Worth. not
wealth." means that you can't buy any
thing of Worth unless you have wealth.
-"Mr. and Mrs. Bullion called this
afternoon, sor.'' "Too bad; and we
were out Did they leave any mes
sagea'' Eyes, sor: he said, Good,
good; tell him I'm so sorry he were not
at home.'"
He Cat dinner)-''May assist you
to the cheese, Miss vassarp" Miss
vassar CAST graduatedD Thanks, no!
l am very comfortable where l am.
But you may assist the cheese to me, If
you willr'-P,sck.
"A Division of Labor.
are you going. my pretty maid" She
-"rm going a-milking, sir" (she said).
He-'Can not help you, my pretty
maidp" She-''Yon can work the
pump-handle, sir" (she said. Puck.
The tallest man in the world is
supposed to be an Austrian named
Winkelmeier, twenty-five years of age.
His height is eight feet and three inches,
being foot more than that of Chang.
the Chinese giant Chicago Advance.
els the sermon donep" an old
woman was asked as she was leaving
the church. mo-" was the prompt re-
ply, 1.-THE sermon is preached but it
will have to be done (and practisedD by
US hearers during the week. - Chicago
Living Church
Man Wants but Little Here Below
Some men content from birth,
Their modest life-course run. !.
And only want the earth
And mortgage on the sun.
They'd live in quiet bliss
And free from all that mars,
II they had the Solar Sys-
Tenn and the other stars.
-''Ma, is Mr.. Thompson respecta-
blee" Certainly, my child Why do you
ask that question:" Because he wears
such poor clothes "You should not
Judge persons by their clothes; none
but silly people do that" ''Then every
body's silly, amt they, map"
IL may not be so eloquent as some
of them" said the Senator from Mid
dlefork, ssbut when / make speech
nobody is able to answer it." Every
likely" replied the honorable Senator
from Hampsex. ibid you ever hear
of an echo to nothingp'' The Senator
from Middlefork is still wondering
what the honorable Senator on the left
was driving at Boston Transcript.
III am deeply interested Of late. =
said the new minister, lin the higher
teachings Of Buddha-" well, you've
come to the wrong place for that study.
young man, growied Mr.. Oldboarder.
s.you can't learn anything about that
article from this hypocritical oleomar-
garine." And the quiet was so loud
that the little water pitcher lifted its
great ears to hear whose bill had been
presented and laid over under the rules.
-Rurdette.
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Oue Oh INC lHuuStfleS u tuc DOyo
and girls at Lowville, N. Y. is the gath
ering of spruce gum. A great many
make over five dollars day.
The hop crop last year was about
$4,000 tons, while the estimated con-
sumption is $1,000 tons. leaving q sur
plus of 10000 tons. Yet, as the hop
crop is sometimes very uncertain, prices
may go up again before the close Of
1887.-UeUela,sd Leader.
In recent lecture before the Royal
Society of Edinburgh John Murray, of
the Challenger expedition. said he be-
lieved that, taking its size into consid-
Grafton, there was no country in the
world with better record of scientific
work or greater mass of scientific lit
erature than Scotland during the past
twenty years. Chicago Times.
There is not so much need of sand
paper in the manufacture of furniture
and all cabinet work nowadays, as the
machinery used turns out very perfect
work. 1t is estimated by one of the
largest manufacturers of sand-paper in
the country that not more than seventy
per cent of the amount of last years
business will be done this year.-Boston
Budget.
"A vexing and unsettled question In
physiology is, "Why are not the walls
of stomach and intestines themselves d.
gested by their own fuids?" Because
these tissues are living. was the answer
of John Hunter in I'VE, but DR.. j. w.
Warren has just disproved this expla-
nation by digesting the legs of living
frogs in artificial gastric juice. Spring
field Times.
Mr.. Stephen Salisbury. Of Worces-
ter, Mass, has just given to the Tech
meal Institute of that city 800. 900. to
be used in the erection and equipment
of a building for laboratories for me-
chanical. physical and chemical science
as memorial to his father. the late
Stephen Salisbury, who for q great
many years was president and chief
patron of the institute. Chicago Trib-
u7se.
The invention of new optical glass
is said to be creating sensation in the
German scientific world. The glass,
owing to its great refractory power,
promises to be of marked influence in
practical optics, inasmuch as it will adj
init of the production of lenses of short
focal width, such as it has hitherto been
impossible to obtain. For microscopic
photography it will be of the greatest
Importance. Opinion.
AT meeting of the Physiological
Society of Berlin it was given as fact
that when the bee has filed his cell and
has completed the lid drop of formic
acid, obtained from the poison bag con-
nected with the sting, is added to the
honey by perforating the lid with the
sting. This formic acid preserves honey
and every other sugar solution from
fermentation. Most of the insects that
have singing apparatus similar to
that of the bee are collectors and
storers Of honey, SO the sting has
double function-it is weapon and
pickle.-F0otc's Health Monthly.
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NORTHERN CANNIeALs.
Britain Columbia Indians Who Indulge Il
Human Flesh.

British Columbia Indians Who Indulge In
Human Flesh.
Prof. j. Jacobsen, who has been in
the province for some years collecting
Indian curios for the Hamburg Museum
and writing up the habits, customs and
traditions of the aborigines, arrived
down on the Boscowitz from Bella Coda.
The Professor spent all last winter at
Tucalo, the head of the southernmost
of the Bentinck arms, which is distant
from Bella Coda about eighty miles.
Here he found the Indian in his print
tive state, a wild, untutored savage,
with but scant knowledge of the arts
or customs of civilization. The inlet,
running far inland, and being every
way out of the course of traders or
prospectors, is never visited. and the
Indians say no white men ever went up
to the head of it before. They live
there as they do in most places around
the coast, by hunting and fishing, deer
and fur-bearing animals Astounding in
large numbers. They are without
missionaries and cannibalism is RAM
pant The Professor tells of some
sickening sights which he witnessed
there during the past winter, which at
this day one could scarcely be-
lieve capable of being witnessed SO
near home, did the information not
come from a reliable person. The Gus
tom is still carried out there of men
ambitious for the honors of chieftain
betaking themselves to the woods, and
after remaining there for some time,
coming back possessed Of q spirit and
biting pieces of flesh from the bodies
of those whom they first meet. One
who wished to graduate last winter
went out and remained from sight
for several weeks, though he came near
the camp occasionally and made night
hideous with his yells. When he came
to the tribe he came naked, notwith-
standing that it was the middle Of
winter, with two or three feet of snow
on the ground. The first man he met
he seized, knocked down, and bit a
piece out of his arm, which he chewed
ravenously. This was repeated many
times over, his face becoming besmeared
with blood and presenting a fiendish
appearance. The victims of the would
be chieftain's bites receive in return for
their pains small pecuniary compen-
sation, and it is an honor to carry the
scar. The moro scars of this kind
decorate an Indians body the more
numerous are his honors, and when
he comes to have great many he be-
comes a chieftain himself in a little
way. The bitter on one occasion made
a break for the Professor, who soon
gave him to understand that he was
going to experience something pretty
tough If he tackled him. He was not
further molested.
1t is the intention of Prof. Jacobsen
to reside in the province permanently.
and he will 60 north again. He brought
down with him many valuable curios,
which will be forwarded TO Germany.
-Nctoria (B. CO. Colonist.
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FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
LITTLE HOUSE OF WIRE.

He would have liked house,
And yet he hadn't any,
But always lived-poor little mousel-
In nook and chink and Granny.
Scurried from Granny to chink,
And hid in crevice and hole,
And what he had to eat and drink
am sorry to tell-he stole!
One day. as, hungry and cold,
He searched the cupboard through
For q bit Of meat or bread, behold,
He found there something new
A little house Of wire,
With woven wire dome,
A king Of mice, even, might desire
30 beautiful homo.
And oh such whiff of cheese
AS came through the lattice door
In all these barron premises
No mouse had smelt beforei
He crawled upon the peak.
And the skyught window tried,
And. after many an anxious squeak.
At last he got inside.
And there was the cheese, ah mel
Toasted lovely brown;
And at once, 90 nearly starved was he.
He gobbled 1t all down.
Nibbled up every crum;
And then he suddenly thought
he ought to have given his brothers some
Indeed. indeed he ought!
He would hurry and tell them so,
But the door was locked he found,
And all that was LEFT him was to 60,
Terrified, round and round!
His pretty wire house
Was wicked trap-ah, well!
What then became of the little mouse
lido not like TO tell!
-1rs. Clara Doty Bates. IN Our Lutte Onel
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THEIR PLAN.
How Mamma Punished Lefty and sue for
Acting = Lie.

A TRUE STORY.
Two such woe-begone, draggled little
figures! They came back to the house.
one behind the other, as slowly as If
they were going to their greatgrand-
mothers funeral. and indeed they
looked like chief mourners.
The nurse had caught them playing
in the brook. an amusement strictly
forbidden at this time of the year, and
= whipping was inevitable.
The whippings didn' come very often
in this family, but for direct disobedi-
ence they were as sure as fate.
Lefty" said the older of the two
little sisters, ''rn tell you what let's
do"
They had on dry clothes. and had
been seated on two stools. one on each
side of the sitting-room fireplace. while
mamma went to get the switch.
''Well, what let's dop" asked Lefty,
in a depressed tone
"Why, the first lick mamma gives.
let's holler like we were bein' killed."
whispered Sue. ''then she won't whip
much"
This naughty plan seemed to work
well. Both little girls yelled so loudly
that mamma was scared.
my switch must be too keen, she
said, and left of.
1T didn't hardly hurt me Bit" said
one little girl gleefulIy when mamma
was out Of hearing.
"Me neither" said the other.
just then they heard rustic Of
newspaper in the library, and, peeping
through tho half-opened door, they saw
papa. After that the children went
about like culprits with rope round
their necks, expecting another whip
ping. But mamma was trying a new
plan.
Mamma, please take this splinter
out of my hand, " said Lefty; sit hurts
me-"
'sOh, nor said mamma quietly; lyon
are hollering before you are hurt;' and
the poor little finger festered and got
sore.
s.Please give me drink of WATER"
said Sue; I'm SO thirsty
II reckon not, " said mamma. ssYou
always holler before you are hurt, you
know" and Sue had to go to the
kitchen for water.
Every petition was treated in the
same way, until they could stand it no
longer.
1--WE most haven't got any. mamma.
smiled Sue.
Then they took courage and made
clean breast Of their misery:
"Is it cause papa told you what we
did bout bein' whippedp" asked Lefty.
Eyes" said mamma, gravely. ssthat's
the reason treat you a. II you never
told the truth"
20 mamma" they cried, wed
rather be whippedr'
''But this Is God g plan with His big
children" answered mamma "An-
aniss and Sapphire were punished
quick and sharp like whipping, but
mostly God leaves liars to get their
punishment by degrees. And it always
comes; as soon as people find out that
you have told lie, they quit believing
any thing you say; and I've just been
showing you how uncomfortable that
is"
"But mamma" cried Lefty, III We
say We are sorry, and won't do 80 no
more, won't You believe Ms then?''
"Yes," said mamma, with her
brightest smile. That's Gods way,
toe; - soon as anybody il sorry, and
wants to do better. He says He Is slow
to anger and plenteous in mercy"
never knew Lefty or Sue to act an
other lie.-Elisa6s1 p. Allen, IN s. s.
Times.
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Mamma, want to see what is in
that box" There isn't any thing in
it. Tom" 20, then. / want to see
what there isn't in it."
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"A paper peach basket which can
be manufactured for about four cents,
has been invented by New Yorker,
and. it is thought, will settle the ques-
ton Of free baskets Tor peaches.
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EXERCISE.

EXERCISE.
How to Play and How to Work Wisely
and Well.
DEAR BoYs:-It hardly seems needful
to tell you that you need plenty of good
wholesome exercise to make you strong
and healthy, yet possibly If we empha-
size the adjectives some what, and say
that good and wholesome exercise is
not so common as violent and UNI
healthy action. possibly you will better
understand the reason I,write this let
ter to you. Very few of you. sup
pose, neglect TO play every day in the
open air. The most quiet and studious
among you enjoys q good run as well
as the one who makes play the object of
existence.
But how to play and how to work
well and wisely are what most boys
need to learn. Only this morning lit
tie Ted camc running in, throwing of
his coat which landed upon the edge Of
his chair. while his hat was tossed into
a corner, and the mud upon his boots
left tracks upon the newly-wiped back
hall floor and over the mating of the
dining-room. Alas. in vain mother ex-
postulated. The little fellow was all
out of breath, and far too excited to
pay any heed to her wishes, so she had
to wait until he cooled down q little
before asking him to be more careful,
and to wipe his boots upon tho mat
before coming into the house.
It does seem little hard that in this
big, free country, such little matters
as clean floors and tidy habits should
interfere with the full, free enjoyment
of the boys in any house, doesn't itP
But did you ever stop to think that
everybody has certain privileges, and
when you come in flushed and tired
with your violent exercise, that posi-
bly, you may forget that the servant is
equally tired with scr-ubbing, and the
mother with tidying up the home and
keeping it in order. So as 1 looked at
little Teddie, 1 felt like telling all the
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DEAD-LETTER OFFICE.


One Of the Most Interesting Branches Of
the United states' Postal Department
How the Mail Matter b CLASH
dsd and Opposed OF
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returning them either to the writer or
the person addressed, they are bundled
together and sold for waste paper.
There are over 100000 letters and
parcels which are disposed of each year
in this way, and the revenue derived
from the sale is turned into the Treas
ury, together with the money received
in letters for which no owner can be
found. Last year there was nearly
5000 deposited in the Treasury on this
account. A visit to the museum of this
Office shows the manifold uses to which
the mails are put in the transportation
of matter other than letters. In this
collection, which preserves only the
most notable objects, may be found
boots, shoes, coats, shawls, bed quilts.
hoop skirts, rattlesnakes, horned toads,
gloves, lace collars, photographs,
jewelry. false hair, etc. The arti-
Giles received in the mails are
retained for two years, and then,
it not called for, are sold at public auc-
ton. The sale last year realized over
5000. The system Of keeping such
vast amount of matter together. with
the necessity of being able to produce
any article called for in the mass of
stuff accumulated, involves very nice
method Of bookkeeping. The store
house is in the depths of the Post-ofiice
Department building, in what might be
called the catacombs, for the place is
nearly all under ground, and the ar
rangement Of the labeled packages in
little alcoves extending from the walls
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DEATHS.
eaths Free--- Tributes, &C., 10 cts. a Li,,e

sCOTT.-In Oakland, California, on July 9, John
Scott, in the Goth year of his age, formerly of
Baltimore county.
HENNAMAN.-On Sunday, July 10, 1887, at
Reisterstown, Emma B. Henneman, aged 81
wears, wife of the late John T. Henneman, Sr.
DUVALL.--At Woodberry, Baltimore county,
July 2, 1887, George W. Duvall, aged As years,
eldest SON of the late G.. 7. M. and Louisa Du-
vail.
SOPER.-On Sunday, July 10, Eliza NJ. Soper,
beloved wife of w. Horace Soper, and eldest
daughter of the late Rev. Isaac Collins.
WHITMAN.-On July IL, Ezra Whitman, in the
10th year of his age.
WALTERS.-On July s, Sarah Walters, in the
Saith year of her age.
BROWN.-0n July IL, James M. Brown, aged SO
years.
PAINTER.-On July II, at the residence of his
son.in-law, DIR. Charles G. Hill, Arlington,
Charles Painter, in the list year.
BURKE.-On Tuesday, July IL, 1887, John Law
renee, SON of N. Charles and Chloe G. Burke, of
Towsontown.
PATTERSON.-On July IL, 1887, Mary Talbot
Patterson, in her Goth year, widow of the late
John G. Patterson, late of Phoenix, Baltimore
county, and daughter of the late j. Putnam
Pearce of My Lady's Manor, Baltimore county
| PRICE.-0n Saturday, July 8, John e. Price, in
the 34th year of his age.
| SEEMULLER.-0n Tuesday evening, July H.
| Mary Bennett, wife of VIM Seemuller, and
daughter of George Howell, of Philadelphia.
LAMBDIN.-At the residence of her father, in
Baltimore, on Thursday, July IA, 1887, Mrs
| Isabel Lambdin, in the 41st year of her age
wife of William J. Lambdin, of Perry Hall
Baltimore county.
| COUNCILMAN.-On Wednesday, July IL, 1887
| after brief Illness Mrs. Charlotte Councilman
in the 10Th year of her age, beloved wife OF
George Councilman, of the 18th district, Balti.
more county.
GREASER.-Suddenly on Thursday, July a.
1887, at Long Quarter farm, near Towsontown
Mrs. Greaser, widow of the late Jacob
.Greaser, of Chestnut Ridge, Baltimore county
aged about IS years.
HOPKINS.-On 18th day, seventh month, Sophis
| Hopkins, aged SO years.
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Is There Such a Thing as Luck I?
Philadelphia Times

lHuuUetpHtU tunes.
Few men are drawing an income of SAC, 900 per
annum out of an investment of $3.50, but Lieuten-
ant Governor Mcdonald, of Michigan, is one of
the few. When Captain N. D. Moore, one of the
ablest of Western prospectors, located the great
Colby mine in the Geogebic iron range he knew
the fabulous value of the find, but was too poor
to develop it. Mcdonald was at that time road
master of division of the Chicago and North
western Railroad at salary of S125 month and
was persuaded to take third interest in the entry,
81 900 being necessary for the immediate purpose.
For months following the land lay idle and Nc
Donald admits that he often wished he had not
gone in; but finally company was formed, the
mine opened and priceless vein of ore discovered.
Then affairs of course took an upward turn. The
land is now leased by company which pays forty
cents ton royalty on the ore taken out, and this
royalty for the present year will be Sl2O,OOO.-
Moreover, McDonald's good luck brought him
into such prominence that he was elected Lieu
tenant Governor last fall and will probably be the
next nominee for Governor. Yet there are some
people who say that there is such thing luck.